Chapter 893: Expelling Tigers and Driving Away Wolves (1/2)

The existence of Yuan Jiuchuan made Nie Tian and the others leave the area where spatial rifts interwove in the sky.

They stopped and practiced cultivation in a place rather far from him, keeping their guard up as they did.

Hua Mu, Zong Zheng, and Qi Bailu had gone through many fights and consumed a significant amount of both their spiritual power and soul power, which they would need time to recover.

Nie Tian took out nine of his incomparably precious soul crystals and gave three to each of them.

With the help of the soul crystals, the speed at which they recovered soul power accelerated by more than a dozen times, and their lifeless eyes gradually started to shine with vigor again.

Time flew. Two weeks passed...

Hua Mu and the other experts had recovered about seventy percent of their strength, but were still fairly far from returning to their peak state.

On this day, Qi Bailu suddenly awoke from his cultivation to gaze in a direction. “People are coming.”

Upon hearing his words, the others also opened their eyes to follow his gaze.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

Five figures appeared in the distance, traveling at a high speed.

With a quick look at them from afar, Qi Bailu said, “They seem to be among the Qi warriors from the Domain of Heaven Python who entered the Shatter Battlefield with us.”

As the five Qi warriors approached, they discovered Nie Tian and the others as well, and thus came to a stop in midair.

Nie Tian took a deep look at them, and found their faces somewhat familiar.

The five of them were all at the Soul realm, but they weren’t from the Divine Seal Sect, the Thousandsword Mountain Sect, or the Golden Vast Sect.

Instead, they were rogue cultivators from the Domain of Heaven Python. In order to enter the Shatter Battlefield, they had paid spirit jades to the Divine Seal Sect, the Thousandsword Mountain Sect, and the Golden Vast Sect.

The one with the highest cultivation base among them was at the late Soul realm, and practiced lightning incantations.

The man was surrounded by thunderballs and lightning bolts, all of which contained rich lightning power.

Upon a closer look, the soul shadows of lightning-attributed spirit beasts could be seen in the seven thunderballs that hovered around him.

“Thunder bird, lightning snake...” Hua Mu differentiated the seven beast spirits in the thunderballs. “All seven thunderballs are fused with lightning-attributed beast spirits. I suppose they’re Spirit Channeling grade treasures, which can form spell formations of formidable might.”

Then, Hua Mu’s expression grew strange. “The Thunder Devil is still at the spatial rifts. These five must know that the spatial rift leading to the Realm of Maelstrom is going to be accessible soon, and are ready to return to the Domain of Heaven Python through it. But if they go there...”

At this moment, Nie Tian called out, “Gentlemen!”

Now, they had already put the Star Boat away, and were practicing cultivation by a sand dune.

Upon hearing his exclamation, the five Qi warriors fixed Nie Tian and the others with cold, examining gazes as they floated in midair.

Before Nie Tian could say anything else, their leader, an old man at the late Soul realm, said aloud, “I saw you with the Divine Seal Sect before, but you don’t seem to be from the Domain of Heaven Python. If you’re done exploring the deeper areas of the Shatter Battlefield, why are you here, instead of waiting by that spatial rift?”

“It’s their luck that they’ve survived so far,” Another Qi warrior said with a mocking tone.

After hearing these words, Nie Tian, who was just about to warn them against going to the spatial rift, fell silent, his face growing cold.

“I’m asking you a question!” The old man said with an unpleasant expression.

All five of them were at the Soul realm, uninjured and at their peak state.

Even though Zong Zheng, Hua Mu, and Qi Bailu were also at the late Soul realm, they had apparently suffered injuries, and their spiritual power wasn’t at the fullest.

Meanwhile, Nie Tian and the girls were only at the Worldly realm and Profound realm, which weren’t even worth mentioning to them.

Their leader was Wu Xu, the member of a rogue cultivator organization from the Domain of Heaven Python. He had noticed Nie Tian and the others when they had entered the Shatter Battlefield together.

Back then, he had realized that they weren’t Qi warriors from the Domain of Heaven Python, but from some other domain.

Normally, powerful domains had their own ways to enter the Shatter Battlefield.

However, Nie Tian and the others had to enter the Shatter Battlefield through the Realm of Maelstrom. Therefore, their domain must be less powerful than the Domain of Heaven Python.

For this reason, Wu Xu and those with him had a sense of superiority over Nie Tian and the others, who they had assumed to be from lower domains.

“The spatial rift leading to the Realm of Maelstrom is not stable yet, so we stayed here and practiced cultivation,” Nie Tian said, smiling.

Wu Xu let out a cold harrumph. “Impolite kid. Haven’t your seniors told you to keep your mouth shut when the seniors speak, kid?”

Then, he laid his eyes on Zong Zheng and the other experts. “Why didn’t you wait by the spatial rift?”

As far as he saw it, as a Worldly realm junior, Nie Tian didn’t even qualify to answer him.